Devil’s Food Cake

Name: Devil’s Food Cake
Yield: Makes 2 round layer cakes (9 by 1 inch) or 1 round layer cake (9 by 2 inches)
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon baking powder; ¼ teaspoon salt; 1 cup cake flour; 1½ teaspoons baking soda; 6 ounces bittersweet chocolate, chopped; ½ cup butter, sliced, at room temperature; 3 eggs; Butter and flour for the cake pans; ¾ cup sugar; 1 cup sour cream

Preparation info

Makes
2 round

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Baking

By James Peterson

Published 2009

About

This rich, deeply flavored cake can be frosted with chocolate frosting, such as buttercream or whipped ganache, to reinforce the chocolate effect, or a contrasting frosting, such as a kirsch-flavored buttercream, white chocolate mousse, white chocolate whipped ganache, or mousseline, to balance the chocolate.

Ingredients

Butter and flour for the cake pans
1 cup cake flour
1½ teaspoons baking soda

Cake
Dessert
Christmas
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat the oven to 350°F. Butter and flour one or two 9-inch cake pans.

In a bowl, stir together the flour, baking soda, baking